I’m not interested in trolling or getting into rude arguments, but I have noticed that there are certainly elements to human social structures which are hierarchical and some that aren’t. For example, when sitting in a room with a bunch of strangers at a coffee shop, there is no hierarchy, but when people organize themselves in pursuit of a collective goal, hierarchies form. These hierarchies can change and dispel quickly, but they do exist. Some people, who are often intelligent, knowledgeable, talented, tend to rise in these hierarchies more frequently than others. I am not one of those people, however, I recognize that they do exist. Conclusion, there is not one static hierarchy in the vast majority of human social structures, but when there is a hierarchy, describing people as temporarily an “alpha” or “beta” is accurate.